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BETTER FRUIT 



September, rgiQ 



Northwest Fruit Notes from Here and There 



OREGON. 



The quality "f all fruit in .loscpliiiie rmiiity 

 is rcportetl l)y ('.. I). Thompson, county aRcnl, 

 to be excellent. I'el-sisli-nt spraying :>nil otliei- 

 progressive inethotis ale said to lii' giving this 

 section a fiuit <rop tliat is almost entirely free 

 of worms and fungus. 



At Ashland and Medford the fruit crop is 

 heavy and of fine quality. Satisfactory prices 

 ai-e lleirig received and a viTy stroirg feeling of 

 optimism for tile future of tlie fruit industry 

 in this section is reported. From 700 to 800 

 cars of pears and tin- same quantity of apples 

 will be shipped from the Medford district this 

 year'. The peach crop at Ashland moved un- 

 der very favorable conditions ami the apple 

 crop there will also command a g lod figure. 



In order to properly handle the lliO.OOO-hox 

 apple crop of the Parkdale district of the 

 Hood River valley the Hood River Apple Orow- 

 ei's' .Vssociation has decided to liuild a new 

 wai-eliouse tlier-e. The increase in the I'arkdiile 

 ci'op is 100 per cent r)ver that of last yeni-. Tlie 

 strawberrv crop of tlie Hood River valley this 

 year amo'unled to over ."s.'iOO.OOO. Of this 

 amount ?25.T."fi1.ll was for berries shipped 

 through the Hood River Apple Growers' Asso- 

 ciation. The average price per crate was $3.76. 

 which is said to set a new record in straw- 

 Irerry prices in the Northwest. The average 

 price last year was |3.33. 



The lifting during August of the embargo on 

 pears caused a bullish feeling on tlie part of 

 Oregon pear shippers. The first Rartletts to 

 reach the eastern markets brought high prices 

 and later shipments moved at a satisfactory 

 price. D'Anjous. Winter Nellis, Comice and 

 the other later varieties are expected to bring 

 high prices. 



Shippers in Oregon and the other Northwest- 

 ern states are now worrying a little over the 

 possibility of a car shortage and the Fruit 

 Growers' Agencv and the Association of Amer- 

 ican Fruit and Vegetable Shippers are at work 

 with railway officials endeavoring to prevent 

 this occurrence at harvest time. 



F. O. Mahan, manager of the apple packing 

 department of the Kugene Fruit Growers' As- 

 sociation, announces that fifty carloads of ap- 

 ples will he shipped by the association this 

 year from Lane county. The work of packing 

 the earlier varieties started in the latter part 

 of August. The Eugene association expects to 

 handle a record tonnage of blackberries this 

 year, a very large percentage of which will he 

 canned. 



Faith in the future of the loganberry indus- 

 try in the Willamette valley is responsible for 

 the purchase of a lllO-acre tract near Salem by 

 Senator Lachmund of the Phez Company and 

 W. S. Walton of the Ladd & Bush bank. Many 

 other tracts, both large and small, have been 

 purchased recentlv near Salem, which will he 

 set to loganberries, the future prospects of 

 which as a money maker are very bright. 



The Brownsville Canning Company, which 

 also has a plant at Corvallis, handled a third 

 of a million pounds of fruit before the seaso i 

 was half over. This operation involved the 

 canning of thousands of pounds of cherries, 

 raspberries, loganberries and blackberries. 

 Later in the season the cannery will handle 

 thousands of pounds of plums, string beans 

 and other products. 



F. M. Radovan is erecting a .$10,000 fruit 

 drier at Medford. The plant will be completed 

 in time to receive apples and pears and will 

 lie equipped for the evaporation of all kinds 

 of fruits and vegetables. 



Owing to the unusually dry summer, peaches 

 and apples in unirrigatod sections in Oregon 

 arc reported to be small, due to insufficient 

 moisture and also thinning. In irrigated sec- 

 tions, however, apples are of good size and 

 heavy in yield. 



Growers in the Hood River valley, which has 

 its record crop of apples this year, were 

 warned in the past few days that the last 

 brood of codling moth was due to appear 

 much later than usual and were advised to 

 spray carefully notwithstanding the lateness 

 of the season. The same condition is said to 

 have been found in Washington, and horticul- 

 tural inspectors in that state have been warn- 

 ing growers to take precautions to guard 

 against a late worm crop. 



Roseburg, Salem and other sections of the 

 Willamette valley are preparing to harvest 

 their prune crops, and driers and other needed 

 equipment is being put into proper condition 



for- the seasiui. Salem, Roseburg, Sheridan 

 arui many of these points in the valley will 

 ship considerable quantities of apples this 

 year and in a year or two the total tonnage 

 of apples will be large. It is expected that 

 rtOO cars of apples will be shipped from west- 

 ern Oregiui this year. 



The prune wage scale recently fixed at Rose- 

 burg is as follows: Driermen, $6 a day, 12- 

 hour shift; traymen, .?.'> per day; shakers, $1 

 to .$5, depending hours put in. Pickers will 

 receive 8 cents per box for Italians and 10 

 cents for Petites, with a bonus of 2 cents per 

 box. 



The Hood River Fruit Company has just 

 completed a large two-story concrete ware- 

 house situated near the railroad, which it will 

 use in connection with its fruit business. 



Sales of Oregon apples dui-ing the month 

 have been reported at ,$2.2.'i and $2.10 per box 

 and even higher. The top prices in the state 

 so far have been given in the Hood River dis- 

 trict. These prices are for the three grades 

 of extra fancy, fancy and choice. At the same 

 time unofficial quotations were giving prices 

 r>n barreled apples in the East at .$B.20 to .1i8..')0. 



The Marshfield Chamber of Commerce has 

 volunteered to assist Coos county orehardists 

 in harvesting and marketing their crops of 

 apples this year and will supply boxes and 

 proviiie help for picking and packing. Some 

 very excellent apples are grown in this dis- 

 trict which go on the market early. 



Fire blight is said to he making its appear- 

 ance in Linn, Benton and Marion counties, and 

 gr-owers are being warned to take quick action 

 to conrbat it. Hood River growers have also 

 iieen warned to keep a close watch for this 

 dread tree disease, although no traces of it 

 have been found there yet. 



Over 1,000 tons of cherries of fine quality 

 were harvested in The Dalles district this year. 

 The peach crop there is also reported to have 

 been good both in yield and quality. 



WASHHTOTON. 



Eastern apple buyers are now said by the 

 Yakima Valley Optimist to be showing a dis- 

 position to slow up in their apple purchases. 

 This attitude, it is reported, has been manifest 

 since the meeting of the International Appli' 

 Shippers at Milwaukie during the middle of 

 August. Large eastern buyers, it is said, are 

 of the opinion that the prices of western box 

 apples are too high. The proposed raise of 

 V2V: cents a box in the freight rate on western 

 fruTt is also being given as a deterring factor 



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